Back at January 2016's VTUG New England Winter Warmer 2016 in Gillette Stadium near Boston, I was walking along a hallway when I was suddenly tackled by an unusually exhuberant Peter Keilty from VMware, who I just seen a month before at a November VMUG in Providence. What could be so exciting for me to see in this new session, that I hadn't seen already?
Well, let's just say what I did see was impressive. Grant Challenger kicked things off in his appropriate football jersey, then Peter gave us all a pretty good peek at what's coming up next in VSAN 6.2.
I realize not everybody lives near Boston. So I'm glad Peter has shared his presentation, which I now present to you, hosted on a fast global cloud server called AWS CloudFront. Enjoy! Then take a moment share your thoughts by dropping a comment below. I know "S" has already shown his enthusiasm in his VSAN comments here, which started as RAID comments on a SuperServer back here.
VMware Virtual SAN - Hyper-Converged Infrastructure for All Data Centers
Peter Keilty
Office of the CTO, Americas Field
Staff Systems Engineer
Storage and Availability
VMware, Inc.
pkeilty@vmware.com
@keiltypeter
livevirtually.net
Grant Challenger
Area Sales Manager – East
Storage and Availability
VMware, Inc.
gchallenger@vmware.com
Here's all the links from page 34-35 of the presentation:
VMware Virtual SAN Resources
• VMware.com – Product – Virtual SAN
- http://www.vmware.com/products/virtual-san/ VMware Infrastructure Planner – VIP
- https://vip.vmware.com/features
• VMware Virtual SAN TCO and Sizing Calculator - https://vsantco.vmware.com/vsan/SI/SIEV
• VMware Compatibility Guide for Virtual SAN - http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vsan
• Virtual SAN Hardware Quick Reference Guide - http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/vsan/virtual%20SAN%20Hardware%20Quick%20Start%20Guide.pdf
• Download: - https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_virtual_san/6_0
• Doc landing page: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/virtual-san-pubs.html
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9MeVsU0uG65kM9iszj5KmNj01PiAWgvf
VSAN Blogs
https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/tag/VSAN
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/virtual-san/
http://cormachogan.com/vsan/
http://www.punchingclouds.com/
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
http://livevirtually.net/
http://blogs.vmware.com/storage/author/chuck_hollis/
StorageReview.com
– VMware Virtual SAN Review: Overview and
Configuration
– VMware Virtual SAN Review: VMmark Performance
– VMware Virtual SAN Review: Sysbench OLTP
Performance
– VMware Virtual SAN Review: SQL Server
Performance
See also at TinkerTry
See also
Reminder, VSAN requires very careful enterprise grade gear for proper operations. Any long term tinkering with VSAN in your home lab could lead to premature SSD death, due to the write-heavy nature of this solution. You've been warned!
Be sure to consult the:
- Virtual SAN Hardware Compatibility Guide - VMware
vmware.com/go/virtualsan-hcl
Social
@NE_VTUG @VMware ‘s @keiltypeter talking RAID5/6 coming to vSphere soon in VSAN 6.2 pic.twitter.com/SkKezhPn8q
— Paul Braren (@paulbraren) January 21, 2016
.@keiltypeter @Supermicro_SMCI Imagine 3 of these little 10GB Supermicros for home VSAN, hmm: https://t.co/WccZeID4Vc pic.twitter.com/nS09bubQHB
— Paul Braren (@paulbraren) May 21, 2015